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Balfour Declaration

A 1917 letter written by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressing the British government’s support for the Zionist movement and “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”.[1] In 1922, the goals of the Balfour Declaration into the League of Nations text of the British Mandate for Palestine.[2]

Sources

  1. A. Balfour. 1917. Balfour Declaration
  2. League of Nations. 1922. Mandate for Palestine